Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy lies to girl. Girl dies of broken heart.

St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre will attempt to take this timeless love story of boy and girl to the Eisenhower Auditorium at 8 p.m. tomorrow.

Premiering in 1841, Giselle is the story of a peasant girl who falls in love with a disguised nobleman, who is betrothed to another. And even in the after life, Giselle forgives her lover, saving him from the vengeful spirits led by Mirta.

"It's one of my favorite pieces with it being such a tragic story, and even in death she loves him," said Dawn Mykut, faculty instructor for the Ballet Theatre of Central Pennsylvania. "She saved his life from Mirta even after he deceived her, her love is so strong."

Founded in 1966, the company is an extension of the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets from the traditional Russian influence. The ballet company was the first ballet troupe to perform at the prestigious Bolshoi Theatre, and currently the troupe tours internationally on ballet competitions.

"They're kind of like the newer ballet company from the Kirov Russian ballets, [but the] Russian company is well regarded," said Judy Pirela, secretary of Volé ballet group.

The music, composed by Adolphe Adam, is often described as melodramatic and tightly integrated with the dance piece. Famous outside the ballet world for composing "Oh, Holy Night," Adam was the first to use the leitmotiv in ballet.

"The music is meant for a purpose and used to convey literary elements," said Alex Hill, executive director of the Ballet Theatre of Central Pennsylvania. "It is very much in the style of the height of musical romanticism, [using] a lot of mysticism, unrequited love, death and ghosts."

The two-act Giselle originates from the first half of the Romantic Movement in the 19th century.

During this era, ballet music was far more straightforward and less complicated than the classical ballet music of Tchaikovsky and Delibes. The ballet itself celebrated the use of the uncultivated imagination, tender sentimentalism and rugged individualism.

"There are no changes to the original. There will be dancing to recorded music, not so much a [live] orchestra, but [the performance] will be traditional," said Laura Sullivan, Eisenhower director of marketing and communications

Volé ballet members expect to take about 20 members as part of a social event tomorrow as not only an effort to watch a ballet favorite, but to also support the dance community.

"We don't get to see as many ballets, so any support shows the community that people are interested in that kind of [stuff]," Pirela said.

With such support from the rest of the dance community, Giselle's popularity could mean an increase in dance performances for Eisenhower Auditorium in the future.

"I think story ballets are strong sellers because people like following the story from the beginning, middle and end," Sullivan said.